Liz Awalt

Artist Works

Network - 2012
54 x 46 inches Oil on linen

Artist Bio

Liz Awalt’s visionary and magical paintings delve deeply into the expressive possibilities of paint.  Her large-scale, sensuously painted anthropomorphic imagery have implied narratives and become vehicles to express primal emotions of love, joy, and sorrow.  Rather than explorations of specific sites, her meditations on both life and death are experienced by the paint’s sheer physicality and transformative potential.

Awalt"s work is included in "Order Insecta" at the Concord Art Association through August 14th, 2008.  The group exhibition was recently reviewed in the Boston Globe and Awalt"s work was described by Cate McQuaid as being, "much more about painting than about natural science, but it"s an instance in which content complements form. A shimmering of brushstrokes, "Suspended Radiance" depicts a swarm of butterflies; it seems to portray the experience more than the sight of so many fluttering insects... Liz Awalt"s paintings... shine."  To read the complete review, visit http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/07/20/critters_large_and_small___and_no_need_for_bug_spray/.

Awalt received her MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been the recipient of: a prestigious National Endowment for Arts Fellowship in Painting; a Painting Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Foundation and several other awards that assist artists in various stages of their careers. She has been an Artist-In-Residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; The MacDowell Colony; The Millay Colony and Yaddo.  Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections including The Rose Art Museum, The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Danforth Museum and The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston Colllege. Awalt lives and works in Concord, MA.